The agenda, which promotes Dasantis, led to the high energy rate of Florida.

The residents of Tampa Bay are looking at higher energy bills this month, but Governor Ron Desantis is grateful. Against the Desantis’s parent association, the anti -florid agenda, his appointment approved the price of more than 800,000 Tampa Electric Customers last month. Procorporate Move is the latest of the governor to increase personal financial resources at the cost of Florida. You don’t have to be like this.

For more than a year, the residents of Tampa Bay have been struggling with continuous hurricanes, inflation, and rapid energy costs, and have revealed the opposition to the proposed rate hiking proposed by Tampa Electric. We turned our heads: The agency’s own staff experts reduced interest rates in half and unnecessary exploiting, as a new fracking gas factory, and millions of customers. We recommend that you protect your family by refusing to burn.

Eventually, the Desantis Public Service Committee chose to not listen to how many utility companies would charge for energy. When hundreds of thousands of floridans are given the opportunity to reduce the pains that are struggling to achieve their goals, the appointment of the governor will instead approve the rate hiking that will further bear the family of Tampa Bay. Ignored the public comments and the recommendations of experts. 。

When millions of Floridans are with energy (spending more than 6 % of the income bills in the energy bill), such decisions send a clear message to Floridans who are struggling: desantis Will not fight for us. On average, half of the low -income households of Jackson Building, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami have more than 7.2 % of energy. These quarter are over 12 %. The national average is 3.5 %.

The Public Service Committee also approved the request of a new fracking gas factory paid last month to the customer’s Dime. Currently, customers are not only hooked at $ 167 million plant construction costs, but are also trapped in the use of dangerous fossil fuels for decades. The rise in the cost of flacking gas and the long -term climate and health of fossil fuels are on our shoulders.

In the Desantis Florida, the public sector exists to serve the private industry. This is not people. Last year, Desantis signed a bill to provide further distribution materials to the public interest business, denying the economic and environmental impact of climate change. This latest movement emphasizes how the government has intended to protect the residents of Florida into a rubber stamp on a company’s desired list.

Florida, who refuses to have their communities pay for corporate greed, is increasing. We will continue to promote the Public Service Committee with us, not the company, by reconsidering the electricity decision on the tumper and refusing future interest rates. Ultimately, we need leadership from a state and local officials that value the future, which is more important than a company, a community, and a sustainable future than a company. The decision of the Public Service Committee is a gut punch, but you have to keep demanding more from the selected officials. The battle over sustainable energy at an affordable price has just begun.

Brookword is a senior florida organizer of food and water watches, a national environmental control organization, and has mobilized people to establish solutions to food, water and climate issues. She is based in Tampa Bay.